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Lazy Man’s Load

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One too heavy to be carried; so called because lazy people, to save themselves the trouble of coming a second time, are apt to over load themselves.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Layamon
Layers-over for Meddlers
Lazar House or Lazaretto
Lazarists
Lazarillo de Tormës (1553)
Lazarone
Lazarus
Lazy
Lazy Lawrence of Lubberland
Lazy Lobkin (A)
Lazy Man’s Load
Lazyland (Gone to)
Lazzaroni
LÉtat cest Moi (I am the State)
Le Roi le Veut (French, The king wills it.)
Lea
Leaba na Feine [Beds of the Feïne]
Leach, Leachcraft
Lead (pronounced led)
Lead (pronounce leed)
Leaden Hail (Showers of)